To Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard 2 January [1862]
Summary
Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3372 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3373 |
From John Lubbock 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3376 |
From Henry Walter Bates 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3377 |
From John Lubbock 7 [February] 1862
Summary
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 [Feb] 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3378 |
From Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 10 January 1862
Author: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 11v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3379 |
To Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation [after 10 January 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
Date: | [after 10 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 11r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3380 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
To H. W. Bates 13 January [1862]
Summary
Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 13 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3382 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 13 January 1862
Summary
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3383 |
From Charles Carter Blake 13 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].
Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.
Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?
Author: | Charles Carter Blake |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3384 |
From C. E. Brown-Séquard 13 January 1862
Summary
Apologises for not answering CD sooner about where he will publish review [of Origin]. Review is to appear in his own journal, but will postpone publishing it until the French translation of 3d ed. appears. Expresses substantial agreement with CD’s views.
Author: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3385 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 [January 1862]
Summary
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 [Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3386 |
From John Hutton Balfour 14 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]; will examine some [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden samples in its light.
Huxley visiting Edinburgh and spoke on man’s zoological relations with monkeys [see Man’s place in nature (1863)]. JHB disagrees with his views.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3387 |
From Henry Holland [3–14] January [1862]
Summary
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3–14] Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3388 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 15 [and 16] January [1862]
Summary
Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 15 and 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3389 |
From Henry Holland 15 January [1862]
Summary
Has read CD’s Primula paper.
Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3390 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 January [1862]
Summary
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3391 |
From William Branwhite Clarke 16 January 1862
Summary
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3392 |
From Charles Cardale Babington 17 January 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Asks if CD has observed the true oxlip (Primula elatior).
Comments on Hottonia and Stellaria graminea. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 72, 313.]
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 58–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3393 |
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